r/tarantulas • u/FiewLoo • Feb 01 '16

Question First Tarantula?

Hello!

First pardon my English its not my native language.

I have been admiring spiders since I could walk, see spider, pick up spider. Sadly Im livin in Sweden where there barely are any exciting spiders to find so gotta get me one home. Im 19 years old, I love taking care of pets.

I have read the basic stuff about owning a Tarantula will of course read even more inbetween classes. I do need some tips of picking my first one.

Requirements:

  • Needs to be a good handling one. I'm aware that you should maybe not handle tarantulas too much but I love these creatures and need to hold them sometimes. I have held one when I was younger.

  • Cant hurt cats. I do own a cat, I have no itention in letting my comming Tarantula and the cat to be even close to eachother, the terrarium will not be in a place where the cat can approach and disturb the T. But if the thing would happend, the Ts bite shall not be able to damage my cat.

  • Beginner friendly, I have never handled these creatures before so I need an somewhat easy one.

The price dont matter really, neither do the space of the terrarium needed for it.

Hope I can get some help over here thank you! :)

Sincerely Fredrik

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u/FiewLoo Feb 01 '16

Pink Zebra Beauty

thank you for an quick and helpfull response!, does this one also kicks hair very easy?

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u/FiewLoo Feb 01 '16

I appreciate your help very much and will do some more research about this kind, do you know if their bite would be able to seriously hurt a cat?

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u/Morgothic A. versicolor Feb 02 '16

all New World tarantulas have very mild venom because they have a secondary defense with their urticating hairs

With the exception of the P. irminia, which is basically an old world T living in the new world.

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u/FiewLoo Feb 01 '16

Alright thanks once again, will make sure the first one I will hae is a New World tarantula then!

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u/D3adH3adFr3d A. chalcodes Feb 01 '16

Aphonopelma Chalcodes

Mine is quite pleasant and tolerates being held (though I only handle her when necessary to avoid stressing her out). Relatively inexpensive as well though I'm not sure about the rates for getting one to Sweden.